[SDCPJ] (Reactionary) Americans for Prosperity / Young Republicans plan counter demonstration at union rally Friday

Below, please find a message from Secretary-Treasurer Gonzalez:

 

Dear Brothers and Sisters:

 

Hopefully you have all received the e-mails about the rally to restore education funding this Friday, starting at 430 at Embarcadero Park.  (A flyer with details is attached.)  It appears (see below) that our good friends from American for Prosperity (that's the Koch Brothers!) and the Republican Party are planning a counter-protest against the Teachers Union on the same day , same place and same time.  I want to encourage everyone to come out and show our support for our union brothers and sisters who work in the schools, and the need for a budget with revenues. Please keep it classy and peaceful.

 

In Solidarity,

 

Lorena

 

Subject: Stop The Teachers Union & Tax Increases This Friday @ San Diego Embarcadero Marine Park North

To ensure that emails from California Young Republican Federation are delivered to your inbox, please add info@cyrfgop.com to your address book or list of approved senders.

Stop The Teachers Union and Tax Increases This Friday

California Young Republican Federation is sponsoring this important event

The California Teachers Association and their Union friends are ONCE AGAIN using "the children" in their plot to raise taxes before reforming pensions and government waste. At a rally this week in Sacramento their rally cry is for more income and gas taxes with the mantra of the spending problem is "California isn't spending enough".

Tell the Teacher's Unions Enough is Enough! Join with Americans for Prosperity, The Republican Party of San Diego County, Orange County Republican Party, Radio Host Chip Franklin, Radio Host Mike Slater, StopTaxingUs.com (partial list), and taxpayers from throughout southern California at a counter rally to the union cry for more taxes. Tell them to stop using our children to oppose reform. OPPOSITION to the California Teacher's Association using our children to demand tax increases and oppose reform.

WHO:   Americans for Properity - California, Radio Host Chip Franklin, Radio Host Mike Slater, StopTaxingUs.com, Taxpayer Advocate Groups, The Republican Party of San Diego County, Orange County Republican Party, California Young Republican Federation (partial list).

WHAT: Rally in

WHEN: Friday, May 13, 2011

TIME: 4:30 PM

WHERE: San Diego Embarcadero Marine Park North - Look for giant ATM Machine

BRING: Homemade RESPECTFUL signs opposing tax increases, supporting reform, etc.

RSVP:  Contact Ashley Ingram at ashleyingram86@gmail.com or 818-277-1563

Since parking is difficult at the Embarcadero, AFP will be organizing shuttles from Park and Ride locations - you will need to email the above address for a location and pick up time.

SUPPORT OUR MOVEMENT

Invest in the future of California's Republican youth movement! As a new organization we need all the help we can get to build a world class volunteer action network. Your donation will allow us to scale up our operations to be an effective force statewide. Thank you for your support!

CYRF Networks

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CYRF Board

 

Adam Abrahms
Chairman

Jenniffer Rodriguez
Founder/CEO

Joe Sanchis
State Vice Chair

Alex Burrola
Secretary

Michelle Cloyne
Treasurer

Rohit Joy
Nat. Committeeman

Tiffany Abrahms

Nat. Committeewoman

Nathan Miller
Finance Director

Angie Meyer
Communications

Michael Major
Vice Chair North

Matt Hewitt
Vice Chair Central

Justin Smith
Vice Chair South

Ashley Ingram
Executive Director

Dave Bartels
General Counsel

Erin Seay
Membership Director

Scott Carpenter
Political Director

Adam Haverstock
E-Media Director

 

About the California Young Republican Federation:

The California Young Republican Federation (CYRF) is the statewide voice of California's Young Conservatives. Member chapters consist of Republicans aged 40 and under. Visit www.cyrfgop.com for more information.

Jerry N. Tomaszewicz, Jr.

Executive Assistant to Secretary-Treasurer & CEO Lorena Gonzalez / Field Organizer

San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO

3737 Camino del Rio South, Suite 403

San Diego, CA  92108

 

desk: 619.228.8101, ex. 5

cell: 413.210.3664

fax: 619.281.1296

email: jt@unionyes.org or jtomaszewicz@unionyes.org

web: www.unionyes.org

 

"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. And you cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore." -- Cesar Chavez

 

jnt/OPEIU-537, AFL-CIO

 

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[SDCPJ] Wed May 18, 430 pm - TOWN HALL MEETING with Congresswoman Susan Davis

Congresswoman Susan Davis will be holding her "Uptown Neighborhood Day" on Wednesday May 18th in Normal Heights. Join a coalition of progressive group, including US Uncut San Diego, as we tell her it's time to "STOP THE WARS, TAX THE RICH and STOP THE CUTS." It's time our government put an end to wars, corporate tax loopholes, and tax breaks for the richest Americans instead of asking hard-working citizens to tighten our belts and sacrifice essential services and valuable social programs upon which we depend. We want to ensure Susan Davis hears us loud and clear! The town hall meeting starts at 6:00, but progressive groups will be meeting outside the event at 4:30. Bring a sign and get ready to be heard!

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=203751219664354
 
Rick G.

[SDCPJ] PLEASE HELP DISTRIBUTE THESE FLIERS to 2000 educators and student to rally Fri. May 13th

State of Emergency Rally
Friday, May 13 from 4-6 p.m.

 EDUCATION -- State of Emergency Rally More than 2,000 educators, students, parents, union members, business and community leaders - arriving by car, trolley, bus and train from throughout San Diego, Imperial, and southern Orange and Riverside counties - will participate in a huge rally between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. at San Diego's Embarcadero Marina Park North, 500 Kettner Blvd.
http://activistsandiego.org/www.CAStateofEmergency.com

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Activist San Diego's General Meeting

Joyce Beer Community Center Hillcrest - 1090 Vermont, one block north of Univ. Av, across from Trader Joe’s

http://activistsandiego.org/node/2926

State of Emergency of    Public Education Unite to fight Cuts and Privatization!   Mon. 7 pm May 16

 

PANEL DISCUSSION; Join us.  Activist San Diego (ASD) is focusing its monthly evening meeting on The State of Emergency of Public Education: Unite to fight Cuts and Privatization! in particular in general. Panel 30-40 minutes and then lead and respond to a Q&A/discussion afterwords (1 hour 15 min. total).

SPECIAL EVENT:  2000 educators and student to rally Fri. May 13th 4pm  at Embarcadero Marina Park North, 500 Kettner Blvd.

*ALSO: New FM Community Radio update & ASD Membership elections.  Join us, get involved. Become an ASD voting member for just a $24 donation - support ASD mission to become and information, communications and mobilizing hub for San Diego and border region.

             info@ActivistSanDiego.org   For info - 619-871-9354

Please contact us if you are interested in helping out

Sign-up for ASD’s Weekly e-newsletter at www.ActivistSanDiego.org

--  Martin Eder 619-871-9354 = Cell  

[SDCPJ] (Reactionary) Americans for Prosperity / Young Republicans plan counter demonstration at union rally Friday

Below, please find a message from Secretary-Treasurer Gonzalez:

 

Dear Brothers and Sisters:

 

Hopefully you have all received the e-mails about the rally to restore education funding this Friday, starting at 430 at Embarcadero Park.  (A flyer with details is attached.)  It appears (see below) that our good friends from American for Prosperity (that's the Koch Brothers!) and the Republican Party are planning a counter-protest against the Teachers Union on the same day , same place and same time.  I want to encourage everyone to come out and show our support for our union brothers and sisters who work in the schools, and the need for a budget with revenues. Please keep it classy and peaceful.

 

In Solidarity,

 

Lorena

 

Subject: Stop The Teachers Union & Tax Increases This Friday @ San Diego Embarcadero Marine Park North

To ensure that emails from California Young Republican Federation are delivered to your inbox, please add info@cyrfgop.com to your address book or list of approved senders.

Stop The Teachers Union and Tax Increases This Friday

California Young Republican Federation is sponsoring this important event

The California Teachers Association and their Union friends are ONCE AGAIN using "the children" in their plot to raise taxes before reforming pensions and government waste. At a rally this week in Sacramento their rally cry is for more income and gas taxes with the mantra of the spending problem is "California isn't spending enough".

Tell the Teacher's Unions Enough is Enough! Join with Americans for Prosperity, The Republican Party of San Diego County, Orange County Republican Party, Radio Host Chip Franklin, Radio Host Mike Slater, StopTaxingUs.com (partial list), and taxpayers from throughout southern California at a counter rally to the union cry for more taxes. Tell them to stop using our children to oppose reform. OPPOSITION to the California Teacher's Association using our children to demand tax increases and oppose reform.

WHO:   Americans for Properity - California, Radio Host Chip Franklin, Radio Host Mike Slater, StopTaxingUs.com, Taxpayer Advocate Groups, The Republican Party of San Diego County, Orange County Republican Party, California Young Republican Federation (partial list).

WHAT: Rally in

WHEN: Friday, May 13, 2011

TIME: 4:30 PM

WHERE: San Diego Embarcadero Marine Park North - Look for giant ATM Machine

BRING: Homemade RESPECTFUL signs opposing tax increases, supporting reform, etc.

RSVP:  Contact Ashley Ingram at ashleyingram86@gmail.com or 818-277-1563

Since parking is difficult at the Embarcadero, AFP will be organizing shuttles from Park and Ride locations - you will need to email the above address for a location and pick up time.

SUPPORT OUR MOVEMENT

Invest in the future of California's Republican youth movement! As a new organization we need all the help we can get to build a world class volunteer action network. Your donation will allow us to scale up our operations to be an effective force statewide. Thank you for your support!

CYRF Networks

---

CYRF Board

 

Adam Abrahms
Chairman

Jenniffer Rodriguez
Founder/CEO

Joe Sanchis
State Vice Chair

Alex Burrola
Secretary

Michelle Cloyne
Treasurer

Rohit Joy
Nat. Committeeman

Tiffany Abrahms

Nat. Committeewoman

Nathan Miller
Finance Director

Angie Meyer
Communications

Michael Major
Vice Chair North

Matt Hewitt
Vice Chair Central

Justin Smith
Vice Chair South

Ashley Ingram
Executive Director

Dave Bartels
General Counsel

Erin Seay
Membership Director

Scott Carpenter
Political Director

Adam Haverstock
E-Media Director

 

About the California Young Republican Federation:

The California Young Republican Federation (CYRF) is the statewide voice of California's Young Conservatives. Member chapters consist of Republicans aged 40 and under. Visit www.cyrfgop.com for more information.

Jerry N. Tomaszewicz, Jr.

Executive Assistant to Secretary-Treasurer & CEO Lorena Gonzalez / Field Organizer

San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO

3737 Camino del Rio South, Suite 403

San Diego, CA  92108

 

desk: 619.228.8101, ex. 5

cell: 413.210.3664

fax: 619.281.1296

email: jt@unionyes.org or jtomaszewicz@unionyes.org

web: www.unionyes.org

 

"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. And you cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore." -- Cesar Chavez

 

jnt/OPEIU-537, AFL-CIO

 

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Top TV Producers are Interviewed

http://apps.attainresponse.com/MailF5/message.htm?id=videoconsultant@comf5-com/1305149338759-1305151021139&t=http%3A%2F%2Fapps.attainresponse.com%2Ftmb%2Fvideoconsultant%40comf5-com%2F1305149338759.jpg¬ify=yes

[SDCPJ] State of Emergency Rally on Friday

Though this appears to apply to K-12 grades, the issue of public funding impacts all education in the state including the Cal State system and U.C.

UCSD faculty, students and workers have not hit the bricks for quite a while now and here is our chance to join with others in support of public education.

Fred  President
UC-AFT San Diego Local 2034

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

 

Scores of protests, rallies, teacher sit-ins and grade-ins, and town halls are part of a statewide "State of Emergency" campaign week of actions launched Monday by CTA and a coalition of supporters calling on the Legislature to extend current taxes now to avoid the catastrophe of an all-cuts budget.

 

The week of actions, many happening locally, will culminate in a large rally on Friday. Please see the attached flyer and details below and share this information with members, staff and any others who may be interested.

 

State of Emergency Rally

Friday, May 13 from 4-6 p.m.

Embarcadero Marina Park North

500 Kettner Blvd, San Diego

 

More than 2,000 educators, students, parents, union members, business and community leaders - arriving by car, trolley, bus and train from throughout San Diego, Imperial, and southern Orange and Riverside counties - will participate in a huge rally between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. at San Diego's Embarcadero Marina Park North, 500 Kettner Blvd.

 

The rally will include entertainment from the Lakeside Middle School Show Choir and San Diego's Monarch School Steel Drum Band. The speaking program will include welcome remarks by San Diego Education Association President Bill Freeman, welcome remarks from the State Education Coalition by CTA Executive Director Carolyn Doggett, and remarks by Darrin Curtis, California Teacher of the Year from Lakeside Union School District, and by Lou Obermeyer, California Superintendent of the Year from Valley Center-Pauma Unified School District. Representatives from the Parent Teachers Association, California School Boards Association, Association of California School Administrators, California School Employees Association and California Faculty Association will also participate.

 

Contacts: Bill Guy, 619-709-0028, or Lisa Eck , 714-504-7108 (cell).

 

You can view the calendar of local actions on our website, www.unionyes.org, and visit www.CAStateofEmergency.com to learn more about the campaign.

 

We hope to see you there!

 

In solidarity,

 

Elizabeth Newman

Field Organizer/Program Coordinator

San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council,  AFL-CIO

3737 Camino del Rio South, Suite 403   San Diego, CA 92108

www.unionyes.org

 

619.228.8101 x4

enewman@unionyes.org

 

 

ekn/OPEIU-537, AFL-CIO

 

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[SDCPJ] Freeway Bannering Downtown San Diego: Thu MAY 12, 3:30-5:30

Subject: MARK YOUR CALENDARS MAY 12
 
Dear Veterans and Supporters:
 
Please join San Diego Veterans for Peace:
 
WHAT: END THE WARS RALLY 
 
WHEN: THURSDAY MAY 12 3:30 P.M.--- 5:30 PM.
 
WHERE; 6th Ave Overpass on I-5. 
 
Joining San Diego Veterans For Peace will be Elliot Adams the President of Veterans For Peace and Will Covert a Veterans For Peace Activist. Bring your signs, you energy and enthusiasm. 
Let's get the word out End These Wars. 
 
Please forward this to every peace activist you know. Let's make our presence felt.

[SDCPJ] REMINDER: NALC Food Drive this Saturday!

Dear all,

The annual Food Drive is this Saturday.  Please leave nonperishable food items (including pet food) by your mail box or wherever it is delivered.  It will be picked up by your Letter Carrier and taken to the city Food Bank.  If you can volunteer, all the better.

This helps a lot of families in this area.

Fred

The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) is pleased to announce that its annual food drive will be held this coming Saturday, May 14th, at the San Diego Food Bank!  300 volunteers are needed to help unload and sort the food, so bring the entire family and/or a team of co-workers to this wonderful event which collects more than 150,000 pounds of canned food for the community of San Diego.   Food collected at this food drive will be distributed throughout the year by the Department of Labor Participation, AFL-CIO Community Services.

 

If you have any questions or to RSVP your team members' names and locals, please call Ruby Featherly at 619-641-0068 or fax a list to 619-282-1140.  Volunteers will need to be at the San Diego Food Bank (9850 Distribution Ave) at 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 14.  If you wish to wish to volunteer during the day at a post office, call Ruby.  She has a list of area post offices who need help unloading food as it comes in throughout the day.

 

Food and drink will be provided as a party atmosphere prevails!  Dinner will be served at 7 p.m.  Support organized labor and your fellow union members by wearing your union colors!

 

Directions to the Food Bank are attached.

 

Thank you for all that you do, and for your continued support of this wonderful event!  See you Saturday!

 

In solidarity,

 

Jerry N. Tomaszewicz, Jr.

Executive Assistant to Secretary-Treasurer & CEO Lorena Gonzalez / Field Organizer

San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO

3737 Camino del Rio South, Suite 403

San Diego, CA  92108

 

desk: 619.228.8101, ex. 5

cell: 413.210.3664

fax: 619.281.1296

email: jt@unionyes.org or jtomaszewicz@unionyes.org

web: www.unionyes.org

 

"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. And you cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore." -- Cesar Chavez

 

jnt/OPEIU-537, AFL-CIO

 

 

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[SDCPJ] Sunday May 22, 2011 6 PM Screening of Documentary About the Nakba

[please forward widely]

 

 

Important Educational Event and Commemoration

On Sunday 22 May 2011, to mark the 63rd year of the Nakba, Al-Awda San Diego will
be holding a screening of a historical documentary in English about the
events leading to the Nakba. The screening will be begin at 6 PM and will be
followed by a discussion. We are expecting survivors of the Nakba, who
witnessed first-hand the events in 1947/48 in various villages and cities in
Palestine to take part in the discussion.

Join us for this important educational event and commemoration!

The screening and discussion will be held at Al-Awda Center 2734 Loker Avenue
West Suite K, Carlsbad, California, 92010

Admission is FREE.

Al-Nakba (Arabic for Catastrophe) refers to the mass expulsion and
dispossession of the Palestinian people from their own homeland which began
in 1947. More than 450 Palestinian villages were destroyed and greater than
three-quarters of a million Palestinians were driven from their homes and
lands by the Zionist colonization program, beginning a process of ethnic cleansing that
continues unabated to this day.

Directions To Al-Awda Center

From I-5, exit Palomar Airport Road and head East - make a left on Loker
Avenue West (first left after you cross El Camino Real) and left into
Carlsbad Crossroads business center (look for the large Carlsbad Crossroads
sign). End 2734 Loker Avenue West Suite K.

From I-15, exit I-78 West. From I-78 exit San Marcos Blvd and head West. San
Marcos Blvd becomes Palomar Airport Road when you enter Carlsbad.
Loker Avenue West will be on your right, past the Melrose Drive and El Fuerte
intersections. Other directions as above.

From El Camino Real, go East on Palomar Airport Road and make a (first) left
on Loker Avenue West. Other directions as above.

For more information:

Al-Awda San Diego
The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
PO Box 131352
Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA
Tel: 760-918-9441
Fax:  760-918-9442
Email: info@al-awdasandiego.org
WEB: http://al-awdasandiego.org

[SDCPJ] TOMORROW: GAZA - WHAT WE SAW THERE

Please join us for this amazing presentation!
And please share this notice with your friends and email lists ~ thank you!
  
 
Elliott Adams, current President of National Veterans For Peace, and Will Covert, renowned peace activist, present:
 
GAZA - WHAT WE SAW THERE

HEALING WOUNDS THROUGH HUMANITARIAN AID

Tuesday • May 10, 7 PM
San Diego First Church of the Brethren •. 3850 Westgate Place
San Diego, CA 92105

 
In October 2009, Washington Physicians For Social Responsibility sponsored a delegation to the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Assisted by Israeli authorities, the 12 delegates spent five days in Gaza. Six of the delegates were physicians who offered medical consultation and provided care with their professional colleagues. One delegate, a nurse with experience in bereavement, provided classes in grief and bereavement for social workers, psychologists and nurses. The five humanitarian delegates (including Elliott Adams and Will covert) toured sites in Gaza and visited human rights professionals, child development centers, and family members. Stories of the ongoing siege and the results of the Israeli war on Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, during the winter of 2008-2009 were central to each encounter. The delegation was hosted by Dr. Eyad El Sarraj, founder of Gaza Community Mental Health Program and a friend of Washington Physicians For Social Responsibility since 1993.

 

The Presenters:

Elliott Adams
A paratrooper in the infantry serving in Viet Nam, Japan, Korea, and Alaska. He has served his local community in a variety of capacities including: Mayor, President of the School Board, Committee Chair of BSA Explorer Post 17, President of Rotary, Master of the Masonic Lodge. Elliott left politics to become an activist. Attending untold numbers of demonstrations, working at many levels, from stapling signs to doing logistics and organizing work for United For Peace and Justice and War Resisters League , School Of Americas Watch, Peace Has No Borders, Veterans For Peace and many other organizations, at events across the country. Elliott moved from being a soldier to a nonviolent warrior. He is Nonviolent Training Coordinator for Veterans For Peace, is a nonviolence trainer for Creating A culture Of Peace, and is a member of their Leadership Team. He has also done nonviolence and social movement trainings for School Of Americas Watch, Peacemakers of Schoharie, Student Environmental Action Coalition, War Resistors League, and other groups. Elliott has dedicated his life to stopping this war and stopping all war.

Will Covert
In his effort to understand the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and the role the U.S. government plays in the conflict, Will has made five trips to Palestine, including one into Gaza. Will's attended nonviolence facilitator's trainings conducted by Creating a Culture of Peace, the Nonviolent Peaceforce/Michigan Peace Team, and George Lakey's Training For Change. He believes the survival of the Palestinian people, and perhaps of the human species, is inevitably tied to bringing about the paradigm of nonviolent conflict resolution. Will is a US Navy Veteran and is a lifetime member of Veterans For Peace. He is thoroughly committed to the goals and objectives of Veterans For Peace, most specifically the abolishment of war as an instrument of national policy.

[SDCPJ] [unac] U.S. Attorney Escalates Attacks

 

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Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 14:58:48 -0400
From: unacpeace@gmail.com
To: unac@lists.riseup.net
Subject: [unac] U.S. Attorney Escalates Attacks

(please forward widely)

 

These attacks on our movement can not go unanswered.

U.S. Attorney Escalates Attacks on Civil Liberties of Anti-War, Palestinian Human Rights Activists Call U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald first thing Monday morning! (contact info at bottom of this email) On Friday, May 6, the U.S. government froze the bank accounts of Hatem Abudayyeh and his wife, Naima. This unwarranted attack on a leading member of the Palestinian community in Chicago is the latest escalation of the repression of anti-war and Palestinian community organizers by the FBI, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Hatem Abudayyeh is one of 23 activists from Minnesota, Michigan, and Illinois subpoenaed to a federal grand jury in Chicago, and his home was raided by the FBI in September of last year. Neither Hatem Abudayyeh nor Naima Abudayyeh have been charged with any crime.   One of the bank accounts frozen was exclusively in Naima Abudayyeh's name. Leaders of the national Committee to Stop FBI Repression, as well as Chicago's Coalition to Protect People's Rights are appalled at the government's attempt to restrict the family's access to its finances, especially so soon before Mothers' Day. Not only does the government's action seriously disrupt the lives of the Abudayyehs and their five-year-old daughter, but it represents an attack on Chicago's Arab community and activist community and the fundamental rights of Americans to freedom of speech.   The persecution of the Abudayyeh family is another example of the criminalization of Palestinians, their supporters, and their movement for justice and liberation. There has been widespread criticism of the FBI and local law enforcement for their racial profiling and scapegoating of Arab and Muslim Americans. These repressive tactics include infiltration of community centers and mosques, entrapment of young men, and the prominent case of 11 students from the University of California campuses at Irvine and Riverside who have been subpoenaed to a grand jury and persecuted for disrupting a speech by Michael Oren, Israeli Ambassador to the US. The government's attempt to conflate the anti-war and human rights movements with terrorism is a cynical attempt to capitalize on the current political climate in order to silence Palestinians and other people of conscience who exercise their First Amendment rights in a manner which does not conform to the administration's foreign policy agenda in the Middle East.   The issuance of subpoenas against the 23 activists has been met with widespread opposition and criticism across the country. Six members of the U.S. Congress, including five in the past month, have sent letters to either Holder or President Obama, expressing grave concern for the violations of the civil liberties and rights of the 23 activists whose freedom is on the line. Three additional U.S. representatives have also promised letters, as thousands of constituents and other people of conscience across the U.S. have demanded an end to this assault on legitimate political activism and dissent. Over 60 Minnesota state legislators also issued a resolution condemning the subpoenas.   The Midwest activists have been expecting indictments for some time. The freezing of the Abudayyeh family's bank accounts suggests that the danger of indictments is imminent. Take action Monday, May 9: Call U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald at 312-353-5300. Then dial 0 (zero) for the operator and ask to leave a message with the Duty Clerk. Demand Fitzgerald -- Unfreeze the bank accounts of the Abudayyeh family and -- Stop repression against Palestinian, anti-war and international solidarity activists.   In solidarity, The Committee to Stop FBI Repression and The Coalition to Protect People's Rights   For more info go to StopFBI.net  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2011 Committee to Stop FBI Repression, All rights reserved. Thanks for your ongoing interest in the fight against FBI repression of anti-war and international solidarity activists! Our mailing address is: Committee to Stop FBI Repression PO Box 14183 Minneapolis, MN 55415 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | view email in browser

[SDCPJ] Key to Peace: SDCPJ, May 9 - Special Movie Session, 7 pm - "Our Story"

Palestine remains a key to Middle East, and world, peace.  Come to a SPECIAL San Diego Coalition for Peace & Justice session, participate, learn: 

 

- please forward widely -

 

San Diego Premiere

 

Our Story

Video from Palestine followed by discussion

 

Monday, May 9, 7pm

 Church of the Brethren

3850 Westgate Place, San Diego 92105

San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice

www.sdcpj.org - info(at)sdcpj.org
 

 

[SDCPJ] Deadline approaching: Register for the annual Work-a-thon for Peace & Justice

Please register by May 11 for this very important event. The Friends Center will house several organizations working on critical issues in our region and provide meeting space for other community groups. Plus, this event is a chance for you to support an local organization that plays a national leadership role in the movement to resist the militarization of schools and young people.

 

Annual

2011 WORK-A-THON FOR
PEACE and SOCIAL JUSTICE

Saturday, May 21, starting at 9:00 AM

THERE ARE TWO WAYS YOU CAN HELP:

 

1.  Volunteer for a day to help finish the construction of the Friends Center, an exciting project that combines environmentalism, peace activism and social justice organizing. The new Friends Center is a collaborative project of the Peace Resource Center, Church of the Brethren, San Diego Friends Meeting (Quakers) and American Friends Service Committee. The environmentally friendly building will house the PRC, Friends Meeting and AFSC U.S.-Mexico Border Project, and also provide meeting space for other community organizations and projects. To volunteer, complete and return by May 11 the registration form that can be downloaded here: http://www.prcsd.org/pdf's/Workthfl11b.pdf

 

2. SPONSOR a volunteer worker. Your donation as a sponsor will give encouragement to those donating their labor and also benefit two organizations financially: the Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities and Peace Resource Center. Send your check made out to "PRC/Work-a-thon" and we will match your donation with a worker. Mail it to: Peace Resource Center, 3850 Westgate Pl., San Diego, CA 92105.

 

For more information, visit www.prcsd.org, email info@prcsd.org or call 619-263-9301.

[SDCPJ] Anti-militarist Web site recently updated

This is to let you know that NEW articles and updated content have recently been posted at http://www.comdsd.org/, the Web site of the San Diego-based Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft (COMD).

 

Included in the current update are three articles from the latest issue of COMD's printed newsletter, Draft NOtices:

- "Legislation Introduced to Limit Selective Service Registration to 'National Emergencies'," an alert regarding legislation introduce recently in Congress.

- "Bradley Manning: Army Whistleblower Now Charged with Capital Crime," by Kathy Gilberd, describes the military's imprisonment and harsh treatment of the man accused of releasing thousands of reports, messages and documents to WikiLeaks.

 

- "HR 637: Fairness for Military Recruiters, but Not for Students," by Rick Jahnkow, describes Rep. Duncan Hunter's proposal that would make it hard for students to opt themselves out before their high schools release their contact information to recruiters.

 

In addition to the above three articles, the current printed version of Draft NOtices includes a satirical commentary on the military's efforts to appear "green;" an alert on the bill that would link drivers' licenses to draft registration in Calif.; an open letter on Obama's undermining of peace gains in schools; an update on the struggle to stop the Wind Zero military training facility; and a flier for students on the new recruiting restrictions in San Diego schools.

 

To order the complete printed version of Draft NOtices, visit the Web site's Draft NOtices page.

[SDCPJ] May 9, 7 pm - Palestine video - SDCPJ

 

- please forward widely -

 

San Diego Premiere

 

Our Story

Video from Palestine followed by discussion

 

Monday, May 9, 7pm

 

Church of the Brethren

3850 Westgate Place, San Diego 92105

San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice

www.sdcpj.org - info(at)sdcpj.org
 

 

[SDCPJ] GAZA - WHAT WE SAW THERE

Please join us for this amazing presentation!
And please share this notice with your friends and email lists ~ thank you!
  
 
Elliott Adams, current President of National Veterans For Peace, and Will Covert, renowned peace activist, present:
 
GAZA - WHAT WE SAW THERE

HEALING WOUNDS THROUGH HUMANITARIAN AID

Tuesday • May 10, 7 PM
San Diego First Church of the Brethren •. 3850 Westgate Place
San Diego, CA 92105

 
In October 2009, Washington Physicians For Social Responsibility sponsored a delegation to the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Assisted by Israeli authorities, the 12 delegates spent five days in Gaza. Six of the delegates were physicians who offered medical consultation and provided care with their professional colleagues. One delegate, a nurse with experience in bereavement, provided classes in grief and bereavement for social workers, psychologists and nurses. The five humanitarian delegates (including Elliott Adams and Will covert) toured sites in Gaza and visited human rights professionals, child development centers, and family members. Stories of the ongoing siege and the results of the Israeli war on Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, during the winter of 2008-2009 were central to each encounter. The delegation was hosted by Dr. Eyad El Sarraj, founder of Gaza Community Mental Health Program and a friend of Washington Physicians For Social Responsibility since 1993.

 

The Presenters:

Elliott Adams
A paratrooper in the infantry serving in Viet Nam, Japan, Korea, and Alaska. He has served his local community in a variety of capacities including: Mayor, President of the School Board, Committee Chair of BSA Explorer Post 17, President of Rotary, Master of the Masonic Lodge. Elliott left politics to become an activist. Attending untold numbers of demonstrations, working at many levels, from stapling signs to doing logistics and organizing work for United For Peace and Justice and War Resisters League , School Of Americas Watch, Peace Has No Borders, Veterans For Peace and many other organizations, at events across the country. Elliott moved from being a soldier to a nonviolent warrior. He is Nonviolent Training Coordinator for Veterans For Peace, is a nonviolence trainer for Creating A culture Of Peace, and is a member of their Leadership Team. He has also done nonviolence and social movement trainings for School Of Americas Watch, Peacemakers of Schoharie, Student Environmental Action Coalition, War Resistors League, and other groups. Elliott has dedicated his life to stopping this war and stopping all war.

Will Covert
In his effort to understand the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and the role the U.S. government plays in the conflict, Will has made five trips to Palestine, including one into Gaza. Will's attended nonviolence facilitator's trainings conducted by Creating a Culture of Peace, the Nonviolent Peaceforce/Michigan Peace Team, and George Lakey's Training For Change. He believes the survival of the Palestinian people, and perhaps of the human species, is inevitably tied to bringing about the paradigm of nonviolent conflict resolution. Will is a US Navy Veteran and is a lifetime member of Veterans For Peace. He is thoroughly committed to the goals and objectives of Veterans For Peace, most specifically the abolishment of war as an instrument of national policy.

Let's be reasonable

Dear Friends-
This topic related to Osama Bin Laden has created a lot of controversy around the world. I am interested in hearing the views of others on it. Beginning with Peter Joseph's remarks, there have been a number of responses thus far, including the response of Edgar Hopida, who represents the Muslim organization C.A.I.R. in the greater San Diego area. He is a very reasonable fellow, usually, and these remarks of his are along those lines. John
_________________________________________________________________



--- On Tue, 5/3/11, Edgar Hopida wrote:

From: Edgar Hopida
Subject: RE: TZM: Response to Media; Death of Osama bin Laden
To: "community-coalition-event-announcements@googlegroups.com"
Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 12:36 PM
>Many Muslims didn’t celebrate the tragedy of 9/11. It was a far small number than the over billion of Muslims who equally mourned the loss. In fact approximately 50 American Muslims died in the twin towers. I welcomed the death of bin laden because he has tarnished the image of my faith and has made some Americans very distrustful of Muslims. My opinion editorial was published today in the San Diego UT reflecting that http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/may/03/for-muslims-in-us-a-sense-of-relief/ . I agree we should not fall to the level of terrorists. We as Americans should be better than this and be at a higher moral ground than them.

Edgar Hopida, Director of Public Relations
Council on American-Islamic Relations, San Diego Chapter

8316 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Suite 203
San Diego, CA 92111

Telephone/Fax 858-278-4547

Media Requests: 619-913-0719

ehopida@cair.com

---

From: community-coalition-event-announcements@googlegroups.com [mailto:community-coalition-event-announcements@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sandi Whitteker
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 12:24 PM
To: community-coalition-event-announcements@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: TZM: Response to Media; Death of Osama bin Laden

Ok, I'm engaged. Must respond a little.

I agree and disagree with Walter. I agree completely that I don't appreciate all the chanting and jumping around about this assassination. Isn't that exactly what so many Muslims did when the buildings went down? Isn't that what really hurts, to know how happy so many people were at the demise of 3000 souls in that attack? I'm not comfortable with that image of America to the world. It's beyond immature.

That's not to say I'm not glad for his death. It's a long time coming and he was at the helm when the orders went out for the 9/11. He made a point of videotaping his delight in the success of their mission, as both buildings crumbled to the ground and thousands of lives were lost. It's good to have him off the planet. Just a bit less evil around. But let's not fall to his level in how we celebrate his death. And let's not make him so important, either.

Just one person's opinion.

Sandi

From: community-coalition-event-announcements@googlegroups.com [mailto:community-coalition-event-announcements@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex Montoya
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 10:17 AM
To: community-coalition-event-announcements@googlegroups.com
Cc: patricia arpajou
Subject: RE: TZM: Response to Media; Death of Osama bin Laden

I respectfully disagree.

I never cheer when someone is injured, killed, or fired from a job, but I felt pretty darn good about this one.

Walter was way off on this one, in my opinion.

From: community-coalition-event-announcements@googlegroups.com [mailto:community-coalition-event-announcements@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Makeda Dread Cheatom
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 8:40 AM
To: community-coalition-event-announcements@googlegroups.com
Cc: patricia arpajou
Subject: Re: TZM: Response to Media; Death of Osama bin Laden

You are this best. This is so needed. You have my support. I could not of said this better. In the spirit of Dr M.King, I love you.

Makeda

Sent from my iPhone

On May 3, 2011, at 8:23 AM, Walter Davis <wdavis@walterdavisenterprises.com> wrote:

For your consideration. Walter FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TZM: Response to Media; Death of Osama bin Laden On May 1, 2011 Pres. Barack Obama appeared on national television with the spontaneous announcement that Osama bin Laden, the purported organizer of the tragic events of September 11th 2001, was killed by military forces in Pakistan . Within moments, a media blitz ran across virtually all television networks in what could only be described as a grotesque celebratory display, reflective of a level of emotional immaturity that borders on cultural psychosis. Depictions of people running through the streets of New York and Washington chanting jingoistic American slogans, waving their flags like the members of some cult, praising the death of another human being, reveals yet another layer of this sickness we call modern society. It is not the scope of this response to address the political usage of such an event or to illuminate the staged orchestration of how public perception was to be controlled by the mainstream media and the United States Government. Rather the point of this article is to express the gross irrationality apparent and how our culture becomes so easily fixed and emotionally charged with respect to surface symbology, rather than true root problems, solutions or rational considerations of circumstance. The first and most obvious point is that the death of Osama bin Laden means nothing when it comes to the problem of international terrorism. His death simply serves as a catharsis for a culture that has a neurotic fixation on revenge and retribution. The very fact that the Government which, from a psychological standpoint, has always served as a paternal figure for it citizens, reinforces the idea that murdering people is a solution to anything should be enough for most of us to take pause and consider the quality of the values coming out of the zeitgeist itself. However, beyond the emotional distortions and tragic, vindictive pattern of rewarding the continuation of human division and violence comes a more practical consideration regarding what the problem really is and the importance of that problem with respect to priority. The death of any human being is of an immeasurable consequence in society. It is never just the death of the individual. It is the death of relationships, companionship, support and the integrity of familial and communal environments. The unnecessary deaths of 3000 people on September 11, 2001 is no more or no less important than the deaths of those during the World Wars, via cancer and disease, accidents or anything else. As a society, it is safe to say that we seek a world that strategically limits all such unnecessary consequences through social approaches that allow for the greatest safety our ingenuity can create. It is in this context that the neurotic obsession with the events of September 11th, 2001 become gravely insulting and detrimental to progress. An environment has now been created where outrageous amounts of money, resources and energy is spent seeking and destroying very small subcultures of human beings that pose ideological differences and act on those differences through violence. Yet, in the United States alone each year, roughly 30,000 people die from automobile accidents, the majority of which could be stopped by very simple structural changes. That's ten 9/11's each year... yet no one seems to pine over this epidemic. Likewise, over 1 million Americans die from heart disease and cancer annually - causes of which are now easily linked to environmental influences in the majority. Yet, regardless of the over 330 9/11's occurring each year in this context, the governmental budget allocations for research on these illnesses is only a small fraction of the money spent on “anti-terrorism” operations. Such a list could go on and on with regard to the perversion of priority when it comes to what it means to truly save and protect human life and I hope many out there can recognize the severe imbalance we have at hand with respect to our values. So, coming back to the point of revenge and retribution, I will conclude this response with a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., likely the most brilliant intuitive mind when it came to conflict and the power of non-violence. On September 15, 1963 a Birmingham Alabama church was bombed, killing four little girls attending Sunday school. In a public address, Dr. King stated: “What murdered these four girls? Look around. You will see that many people that you never thought about participated in this evil act. So tonight all of us must leave here with a new determination to struggle. God has a job for us to do. Maybe our mission is to save the soul of America . We can't save the soul of this nation throwing bricks. We can't save the soul of this nation getting our ammunitions and going out shooting physical weapons. We must know that we have something much more powerful. Just take up the ammunition of love.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, 1963 - ~Peter Joseph wwwthezeitgeistmovement.com

Peter Joseph TZM Response to Media; Death of Osama bin Laden

For your consideration.

Walter

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TZM: Response to Media; Death of Osama bin Laden

On May 1, 2011 Pres. Barack Obama appeared on national television with the spontaneous announcement that Osama bin Laden, the purported organizer of the tragic events of September 11th 2001, was killed by military forces in Pakistan.

Within moments, a media blitz ran across virtually all television networks in what could only be described as a grotesque celebratory display, reflective of a level of emotional immaturity that borders on cultural psychosis. Depictions of people running through the streets of New York and Washington chanting jingoistic American slogans, waving their flags like the members of some cult, praising the death of another human being, reveals yet another layer of this sickness we call modern society.

It is not the scope of this response to address the political usage of such an event or to illuminate the staged orchestration of how public perception was to be controlled by the mainstream media and the United States Government. Rather the point of this article is to express the gross irrationality apparent and how our culture becomes so easily fixed and emotionally charged with respect to surface symbology, rather than true root problems, solutions or rational considerations of circumstance.

The first and most obvious point is that the death of Osama bin Laden means nothing when it comes to the problem of international terrorism. His death simply serves as a catharsis for a culture that has a neurotic fixation on revenge and retribution. The very fact that the Government which, from a psychological standpoint, has always served as a paternal figure for it citizens, reinforces the idea that murdering people is a solution to anything should be enough for most of us to take pause and consider the quality of the values coming out of the zeitgeist itself.

However, beyond the emotional distortions and tragic, vindictive pattern of rewarding the continuation of human division and violence comes a more practical consideration regarding what the problem really is and the importance of that problem with respect to priority.

The death of any human being is of an immeasurable consequence in society. It is never just the death of the individual. It is the death of relationships, companionship, support and the integrity of familial and communal environments. The unnecessary deaths of 3000 people on September 11, 2001 is no more or no less important than the deaths of those during the World Wars, via cancer and disease, accidents or anything else.

As a society, it is safe to say that we seek a world that strategically limits all such unnecessary consequences through social approaches that allow for the greatest safety our ingenuity can create. It is in this context that the neurotic obsession with the events of September 11th, 2001 become gravely insulting and detrimental to progress. An environment has now been created where outrageous amounts of money, resources and energy is spent seeking and destroying very small subcultures of human beings that pose ideological differences and act on those differences through violence.

Yet, in the United States alone each year, roughly 30,000 people die from automobile accidents, the majority of which could be stopped by very simple structural changes. That's ten 9/11's each year... yet no one seems to pine over this epidemic. Likewise, over 1 million Americans die from heart disease and cancer annually - causes of which are now easily linked to environmental influences in the majority. Yet, regardless of the over 330 9/11's occurring each year in this context, the governmental budget allocations for research on these illnesses is only a small fraction of the money spent on “anti-terrorism” operations.

Such a list could go on and on with regard to the perversion of priority when it comes to what it means to truly save and protect human life and I hope many out there can recognize the severe imbalance we have at hand with respect to our values.

So, coming back to the point of revenge and retribution, I will conclude this response with a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., likely the most brilliant intuitive mind when it came to conflict and the power of non-violence. On September 15, 1963 a Birmingham Alabama church was bombed, killing four little girls attending Sunday school.

In a public address, Dr. King stated:

“What murdered these four girls? Look around. You will see that many people that you never thought about participated in this evil act. So tonight all of us must leave here with a new determination to struggle. God has a job for us to do. Maybe our mission is to save the soul of America. We can't save the soul of this nation throwing bricks. We can't save the soul of this nation getting our ammunitions and going out shooting physical weapons. We must know that we have something much more powerful. Just take up the ammunition of love.”

- Dr. Martin Luther King, 1963 -


~Peter Joseph

wwwthezeitgeistmovement.com

[SDCPJ] Contact Kehoe re. 5/9 vote on linking driver's licenses to a military draft

State Bill Linking Male DRAFT REGISTRATION to Calif. Driver's Licenses faces May 9 Senate Appropriations Committee Vote

 

Senate Bill 251, Selective Service's fifth attempt to pass a bill in California that would link male draft registration to California drivers' licenses, can be stopped on May 9 with enough letters to the Senate Appropriations Committee. The committee chair, Sen. Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego), voted against the bill when it was considered by the Transportation and Housing Committee in April.

 

Selective Service wants the DMV to help register people because 14 percent of male Californians fail to do by their 25th birthday. Such a large number of nonregistrations would make a future military draft less workable.

 

Proposed by Sen. Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana), Senate Bill 251 originally sought to automatically register all males, age 18 to 26, when they apply for a license. The Senate Transportation and Housing Committee approved the bill (7-2), but only on condition that it be changed so that license applicants would be asked to opt in to be registered with Selective Service. However, even this does not change the fact that it would still be a misuse of CA Dept. of Motor Vehicle resources, which are earmarked by law to promote traffic safety. The estimated start-up cost for a similar bill in 2001 was $250,000-$400,000, plus a $20,000 ongoing expense. The DMV's mission should not be expanded to bail out failing federal agencies.

 

SB 251 will be considered by the senate appropriations committee on May 9. Californians should immediately call or write to:

 

Senate Appropriations Committee
State Capitol, Room 2206, Sacramento, CA 94248
Committee phone: (916) 651-4101
Fax for Senator Kehoe, Appropriations Chair: (916) 327-2188

 

Send a copy of your letter to your state senator at: State Capitol, Sacramento, CA 94248. Look up senators at http://www.legislature.ca.gov/. Ask other people to join you in sending letters. For information about committee hearings and deadlines, contact COMD, 760-753-7518, comdsd@aol.com; or register to receive email notices at the bill's Web site (http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.html).

[SDCPJ] GAZA - WHAT WE SAW THERE

Please join us for this amazing presentation!
And please share this notice with your friends and email lists ~ thank you!
  
 
Elliott Adams, current President of National Veterans For Peace, and Will Covert, renowned peace activist, present:
 
GAZA - WHAT WE SAW THERE

HEALING WOUNDS THROUGH HUMANITARIAN AID

Tuesday • May 10, 7 PM
San Diego First Church of the Brethren •. 3850 Westgate Place
San Diego, CA 92105

 
In October 2009, Washington Physicians For Social Responsibility sponsored a delegation to the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Assisted by Israeli authorities, the 12 delegates spent five days in Gaza. Six of the delegates were physicians who offered medical consultation and provided care with their professional colleagues. One delegate, a nurse with experience in bereavement, provided classes in grief and bereavement for social workers, psychologists and nurses. The five humanitarian delegates (including Elliott Adams and Will covert) toured sites in Gaza and visited human rights professionals, child development centers, and family members. Stories of the ongoing siege and the results of the Israeli war on Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, during the winter of 2008-2009 were central to each encounter. The delegation was hosted by Dr. Eyad El Sarraj, founder of Gaza Community Mental Health Program and a friend of Washington Physicians For Social Responsibility since 1993.

The Presenters:

Elliott Adams
A paratrooper in the infantry serving in Viet Nam, Japan, Korea, and Alaska. He has served his local community in a variety of capacities including: Mayor, President of the School Board, Committee Chair of BSA Explorer Post 17, President of Rotary, Master of the Masonic Lodge. Elliott left politics to become an activist. Attending untold numbers of demonstrations, working at many levels, from stapling signs to doing logistics and organizing work for United For Peace and Justice and War Resisters League , School Of Americas Watch, Peace Has No Borders, Veterans For Peace and many other organizations, at events across the country. Elliott moved from being a soldier to a nonviolent warrior. He is Nonviolent Training Coordinator for Veterans For Peace, is a nonviolence trainer for Creating A culture Of Peace, and is a member of their Leadership Team. He has also done nonviolence and social movement trainings for School Of Americas Watch, Peacemakers of Schoharie, Student Environmental Action Coalition, War Resistors League, and other groups. Elliott has dedicated his life to stopping this war and stopping all war.

Will Covert
In his effort to understand the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and the role the U.S. government plays in the conflict, Will has made five trips to Palestine, including one into Gaza. Will's attended nonviolence facilitator's trainings conducted by Creating a Culture of Peace, the Nonviolent Peaceforce/Michigan Peace Team, and George Lakey's Training For Change. He believes the survival of the Palestinian people, and perhaps of the human species, is inevitably tied to bringing about the paradigm of nonviolent conflict resolution. Will is a US Navy Veteran and is a lifetime member of Veterans For Peace. He is thoroughly committed to the goals and objectives of Veterans For Peace, most specifically the abolishment of war as an instrument of national policy.